by Associated Press
MIAMI --
Billionaire cruise heiress Shari Arison broke international law when she took her 8-year-old son out of Israel when she returned to Florida in September, her former husband alleged in a federal court filing.
Michael Dorsman, 38, asked U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King to enforce terms of the 1980 Hague Convention and return the son, Daniel Arison-Dorsman, to Israel.
"This is a case of civil action for international parental child abduction," Dorsman's lawyer, Robert D. Arenstein wrote in a court filing.
Lawyers for Arison, 46, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that she believed her son would be better off growing up with his mother and siblings. She is renovating a multimillion-dollar waterfront mansion in suburban Bal Harbour.
According to court documents, Dorsman thought Arison had taken Daniel to New York on vacation, but a Sept. 14 phone call revealed that she had moved permanently to the United States.
Dorsman and Arison divorced in May 2002, and letters accompanying the court papers show attempts at negotiation quickly escalated into an exchange of threats and litigation.
Forbes magazine ranks Arison, the younger sister of Carnival Corp. chairman and CEO Mickey Arison, the 158th-richest person in the world, with a fortune estimated at $2.4 billion.
An emergency hearing was scheduled for Wednesday morning.
This news was originally filed on pages of HerraldTribune.com
